Sentences with phrase «over coal»

Add partisan government squabbling over coal versus nuclear energy and wind power versus solar and we have even more confusion.

And there are equally crucial battles over coal and gas from the Appalachians to the Pacific coast.

This is due in large part to state policies encouraging the use of natural gas and renewable resources over coal, as well as the aggressive promotion of energy efficiency.

Increasing our nation's use of natural gas over coal will reduce the carbon dioxide in our air by six million tons a year.»

What we need are market incentives for reducing greenhouse - gas emissions — along with some direct controls over coal use — and cap and trade is a reasonable way to create those incentives.

There is an O&M cost increase of $ 70,000 / year over coal, as a result of the need for an additional yard worker to handle the biomass.

But if it turns out that natural gas offers a more modest improvement over coal and oil, as the new EPA data begin to suggest, then billions of dollars of taxpayer and industry investment in new infrastructure, drilling and planning could be spent for limited gain.

Methane is at least 34 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so methane leakage erodes the climate advantage natural gas has over coal.

Not only is this a substantial quantity of product vanishing into the air (natural gas is primarily methane), it is also significantly higher than most previous estimates — including from industry — and would reduce or eliminate any advantage natural gas has over coal from a climate standpoint.

That is, when celebrating the preponderance of wind and solar jobs over coal jobs, some folks forget that one reason for that is that in the US we are building new wind and solar capacity, but (thank God!)

Renewables are elbowing out coal: Regulators in several states have begun favoring utility - scale renewables over coal.

New research from scientists at NOAA and Carnegie - Mellon finds that natural gas production globally may be leaking enough methane to negate the climate benefits of gas over coal during the next two decades.

While natural gas offers clear advantages over coal, over-relying on it for electricity creates serious economic and public health risks for consumers and states and fails to provide a long - term solution to climate change.

However, the report also warned that while natural gas has carbon advantages over coal as a fuel source, the potential for leakages of methane may erode this benefit, as methane is a more potent greenhouse gas.

DEBORAH AMOS: Back in Texas, it was, in fact, big business that stepped in to resolve the state's battle over the coal plants.

Methane leakage diminishes the climate advantages of natural gas over coal.

However, for new plant construction I believe that if the problem of natural gas price spikes can be mitigated, the market will choose gas over coal.

I completely agree with the author that natural gas will be the fuel of the future over coal.

And the battle over coal is also a battle of the billionaires, between Trump who idolises it and Michael Bloomberg, who detests it.

It's not only that coal - burning companies Ameren Missouri, Peabody Energy, and Arch Coal are headquartered in St. Louis, or that statewide battles have been waged over coal burning and the storing of ash.

More quietly (but in many ways worse), leaking wells, pipes, and storage reservoirs are estimated to emit enough greenhouse gases to cancel out the climate advantages of burning gas over coal, and increase smog.

While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.

The enemies of progress seize upon these to distract people, just as they get people all worked up about incredibly marginal issues of windmill - death and windmill - noise and windmill - bird - slaughter, as if windmills had any disadvantages over coal besides visibility.

You can get inspiration from today's New York Times article about I - 732 (and the fight over coal export terminals).

«Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal,» said Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker.

Brune pointed to state and city governments choosing renewable energy over coal, and the efforts of private companies on climate change, as well as popular support for action on climate change.

These «fugitive emissions» must be kept below 3 % for gas to maintain its climate benefit over coal, so minimising them should be a high priority for the industry.

Anthony Hobley, CEO Carbon Tracker: «Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal»

As I've argued several times, the battle over coal - export terminals in the Pacific Northwest is the key U.S. climate fight of the next few years.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

The announcement was seen as a victory for project opponents, who said the decision ensures that concerns over coal dust, greenhouse - gas emissions and rail traffic are addressed.

Bo Webb, along with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and others, is featured in «The Last Mountain,» a powerful, must - see documentary on mountaintop removal and the battle over Coal River Mountain.

There is a chance that the ABC could move towards «balance» in their reporting, most likely forced by a debate over coal usage.

That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions advantages natural gas has over coal in power generation.

U.S. carbon emissions dropped 1.7 percent due to a rise in natural gas over coal energy, a decline in oil use, and a warm winter, which reduced heating demands.

(Peoria Journal Star) • Advocates pressure We Energies at its annual shareholder meeting over a coal storage site negatively impacting residents.

«There's a new sheriff in town,» agrees Salon's Andrew Leonard, pointing out that last week the Obama EPA started its own lawsuit over a coal power plant upgrade in Kansas that allegedly failed to add in required pollution controls.

The surge in production has pushed gas prices to historic lows, leading utilities increasingly to choose it over coal.

Also, if fugitive methane emissions exceed 3 percent of total gas production, natural gas's climate advantage over coal disappears over a 20 - year time horizon.

ProPublica has published a good update on concerns that existing practices for extracting and piping natural gas, through leakage, substantially cut into the fuel's substantial greenhouse - gas advantage over coal.

But, again, the notion that gas holds no advantage over coal, in weighing the climate implications of energy choices, is fading fast (to my reading of the science and that of many others).

If we're interested in energy security, forcing energy providers to choose natural gas over coal is a step in the wrong direction.

Still, we can invest our efforts in new development as wisely as possible, choosing solar over coal and biodiversity over factory farms.

His thick impasto layers of skilled strokes layer over the coal black ground, or liquid depth, a recognizable form of the koi that is simultaneously a riveting abstract painting.

Your guide will explain how the locals make charcoal, see how fishermen get their fresh catch using fish nets and fishing lines, learn how our ancestors preserved fish, roasting fish over coal pot, learn and practice playing the game of the Caribbean - Cricket.

Another booming area of the guggul gum industry is as an incense; local Indians believe that burning the raw gum over coal to create a thick dense smoke can drive evil spirits away from the household and remove the «evil eye» from nearby humans.

Despite hand - wringing over coal's demise in the United States, the fossil fuel will still dominate the global energy sector.

The UK achieved an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions in 2016 by making full use of natural gas over coal.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.